A letter from August 4th, 2014

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hello. How are you? Right now I am at SFO, or San Francisco International Airport. I'm not sure where the O from SFO comes from. In SFO time, it's 11:19 AM, but in China time, it's 2:19 AM, so I am really tired. I mean, REALLY TIRED. I think I will go have a cup of Peet's coffee in a bit or so. I find it kinda interesting that China doesn't have time zones, but at least people don't have a problem with feeling jetlagged when they travel to different parts of China. I am very jetlagged. As you can probably clearly tell. Blah blah blah BLAH BLAH ehm hem --> this reflects my mental state Um, anyway. Our flight layover is approx 6 hours, which I thought was kinda long, so I wanted to take BART into the city (or at least to somewhere more interesting). BART is really expensive, though-- $15 round trip for San Bruno, the closest stop. That's kind of ridiculous. In Shanghai, taking the subway cost about 2-4 yuan per trip, I think, and $15 USD would last you a long time on the subways. Light Rail in Denver only costs about $4 round trip, I think, so $15 is seriously overpriced. Oh also our flight to San Francisco had wifi! Not free though-- you had to pay about $17 for wifi access during the whole flight. I feel like the demand for wifi access on an airplane flight is pretty elastic, though, (considering that people are already used to not having wifi on airplane flights) so I think the price is a bit high. I'd predict that it (the price of wifi access) will drop in the next few years, though then again, as the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, the demand for internet usage on planes might increase, which would lead to increased prices. Also, there's inflation to think about. Anyway that is all my brain is capable of (semi-)coherently producing. I think I will go eat lunch. Bye bye bye bye byeeeeeee.

Epilogue

1 day later

Dear PastMe,

It's really strange to peek into the mind of myself from 8 years ago.

Speaking of SFO, it might interest you to know that I (you?)...

Si slil)t si rteytp yhw igwbenrdile ae!ra si ysmtyre aby o na a ulatclya erth'se hsaa'nihgs ilev logner sfo uhcs now wyh ahughl(ot in gpv ldleac no ni the rroptia.
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Iltsfhg orlgen cerpis no enev wlo gfstlhi si ntigh, no ttha oaeirlnntinta ifiw ohguth wen seprci, no ne'art lal er a ifiw. Eb itesdmoc on eref wfii dnets reoff jt)leube ehrpeca own oems hilg,tfs ot ifiw rsiaenli dan (elki. Ibt esrona plcaehy i a rshete' xuruyl of si eitm fstghli sugse iifw ti os icerp to a on no. You ni weer stju seac urouisc.
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Osem yuo inffredte a yerv meos hatt eb, dsa also dues are in a era bit noreps ot adn aswy atht nath v'uoey ni godo emebco. Eranlops lal tpetyr gorthw omtsyl, uodpr the for hivdcaee 'im voy'ue of uoy. Wlodu 'eroyu eevn rdpou eb oyu ohpe oreaymn ton t,oo os fi i etcaisilid.
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Tosrgn yrev onpser i a nktih bmcoee oeuvy'. ,oyu ton ahtt lefi sah inthk eays so neo been 'yoeru ouy fo btuoa si tighsn but ot nigryt esbt eth aalyws i.
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Oosn ralecl hnatk teh el-afserc you e)wlhi aikntg hoep of and that lsnose eet,trl rof lraen i i( a the itaernpomc uyo. Uyo aivne tle neojy gudenrdra yuo eolpxit amyn hrfes ryt a ppeleo too nweh otn to coelel,g nad rea. Ruoy llwi losa rsneop [] eemt trtaimpno sehcihr an( hwti uoy tesim a)utregda yuo tafre.
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Boefer iibtnco uoy in the pakr eahv scah yw,a 0212 yb nya.

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